Some of the designers who made it happen

Winner
- THE B.U.X.D

Excellent designer! Very responsive and always willing to adapt his submissions to our comments, needs and suggestions. Not afraid to challenge our ideas when he saw a better alternative. Had a great experience working with him, and our team is very pleased with how the website turned out. Thank you!

- juan.henschien

Finalist
- webDAE

Very quick and great work!

- matt3H

Finalist
- designnik

Amazing word - will hire again

- Tim Mc

Finalist
- Canvas Creation

amazing work :)

- Anonymous

Finalist
- UILady

Amazing job,
WIll work with him again.

- Anonymous

How juan.henschien started their web page design journey

Who are you known as?

Candihire

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

We’re a team developing a virtual platform that aims to help college students / recent graduates find their first job while at the same time providing companies access to a talent pool about to enter the job market. Our platform accompanies the job seeker at all stages in the process – from guiding them as to what the career path most suited to their profile is, to aiding in the search with an aggregator with advanced refinement capabilities, to making the application process more agile and user friendly. As a result, it is the ideal career management platform for universities. Companies looking for talent get the benefit of getting candidates that have completed an assessment (that can be used for screening) and advanced search tools.

Targets: universities / students / company HR departments

What industry do you think your business is most related to?

Internet

Existing website

What do you have in mind for the style and theme of the web page?

We're looking for a re-design to the generic template we are currently using for our page. The key words are sleek, minimalistic, modern. We would like a page that stands out from the thousands of boring job boards (as much as the service we offer does). Wireframe suggestions to what the pages could look like are included, but are only suggestions – we are not designers! Ideally, we would like the color palette to be defined by our icon (attached), which is orange on a black background. Icons and visual aids, whenever appropriate, would be great to assist the user in navigating the site. It is very important for us that the site be responsive to a variety of devices, so please keep that in mind in the designs.

Page descriptions

1) Landing page:

For the landing page, we like those long, single scrolling pages that contain several sub-sections all on one page.

- Split screen on top, two hero images with a button in each to differentiate candidates (seeking jobs) from companies (seeking talent)
- Main body: section with video (placeholder, in development now) with a small description on the side (see “headline”, “subheadline” sections in supporting doc). Below this goes a description of how the platform accompanies the candidate or company in their search, should have numbered steps (3) with 3 bullet points below each step – PROFILE, SEARCH and APPLY for candidates and PUBLISH, PROFILE, HIRE for companies. Include call to action for signing up to the platform
- About us: profile of the three founders, placeholder photos & text for now
- Partners & Advisors: Shore Consulting Group / Lee Hecht Harrison, use placeholder descriptions and logos for now
- Clients: monochrome logos of customers using our platform, placeholder logos for now
- Contact: map with our office location (provided in supporting doc) with a “contact us” box – fields for selecting if candidate or company (drop down or check box), name, title, company, email and message
- Footer (color preference – black): should contain logo with brief, one sentence company description (the next evolution in recruiting), links to navigate to all of the above sections, our social media

What to avoid

Because we are looking for something different and unique, we are pretty open minded when it comes to design. If you feel that you have a great idea that deviates from the wireframes and page descriptions, as long as the functionality is there, feel free to present it. We are more than open to discussing new ideas from creative and talented designers. The only thing that comes to mind is please try to avoid overly-clichéd looking stocked images and cluttered designs, or designs that would need very high bandwidth to view correctly / quickly.